The Division of Pain Medicine at The University of Florida is committed to providing excellence in patient care for both acute, chronic and cancer pain patients, using all techniques and modalities currently available. Education of our residents, along with ground breaking research is a primary goal of the department.
The Pain Medicine Division consists of a group of physicians and clinical providers who are from a wide variety of Pain Medicine fields including anesthesiology, psychiatry, physical medicine, and neurology. Furthermore, we work in close collaboration with the Departments of Neurosurgery and Orthopedic surgery to provide clinical Pain Medicine care from a variety of perspectives.
Educational objectives are achieved through didactic lectures, clinical care, procedural interventions, and involvement with ongoing research projects. Lectures are held throughout the week. Also there are monthly pain psychology conferences, grand rounds, journal clubs, and multidisciplinary pain conferences. Trainees are encouraged to participate in ongoing clinical investigations and laboratory research. Current fields of interest include the sympathetic nervous system and outcomes-based investigations. Trainees will become proficient in the performance of numerous procedures including but not limited to: celiac plexus blockade, hypogastric plexus blockade, ganglion impar blocks, stellate ganglion blocks, neurolytic techniques, facet blocks, radio-frequency ablation, pulsed radio-frequency techniques, spinal cord stimulation, implantable intrathecal pumps, epidural steroid injections, peripheral nerve blocks, lumbar sympathetic blocks, transforaminal nerve blocks, discography, IDET, and percutaneous decompression (nucleoplasty). |
